If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.